LandscapesAnimationForHT

The Landscapes program contains the 64 hexagrams from the Chinese classic The Book of Changes. Each of the 8 trigrams are represented by a musical instrument with similar characteristics to the visual nature of each trigram. The Upper-keyboard moves with the Clouds from Heaven. The Lower-keyboard moves with the patterns of the Earth. The Flute moves with the Mountains and rocks. The Oboe moves with the Water in the streams. The Violin moves with the Fires and the sun. The Bassoon moves with the Wind around the trees and wood. The Cello moves with the Lakes and pools. The Bass moves with the Thunder of lightening.

This low-polygon landscape scrolls forward in a manner influenced by the traditional Chinese landscape symbolic perspective of nature where the energy of "the" movement is primary, and where negative space is used for sky given the constraints of the medium in conserving polygons, and hence rendering-time with the computer display as the medium.

The Chaconne is of French origin with the repeated harmonic pattern allowing individual and combined variations, where the eight-bar ground sometimes overlaps, and eventually all instruments crystalize into the final unified variation.

Time: 2:57, E=120
Soundtrack: RV 107

IMPORTANT: This app requires the pre-installation of another app named SetupAnimationForHT that is available for free on Google Play

Please select "More By Animation for HeadTracking" to install the app, or cut and paste the following into a browser:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=a.SetupAnimationForHT

Please turn off auto-rotate in your display settings.If launching the app from a cellphone, first position it in landscape orientation with the home-button to the right.

The Animations for Head Tracking series of apps provide a relaxing form of interactivity where one only needs to look around. Each of the apps provide numerous viewing paths and are designed to run offline so they will give high replay value. These apps provide a view of music that otherwise can only be heard. Enables people born deaf to now sense the moving structure of baroque music. The apps should run an any Android cellphone or tablet that contains gyros, and there is a free setup app required for tuning the gyros (since there is no way to know how sensors are positioned on every Android device). Some of these programs started back in the days of wire-frame graphics so they have been stress-tested against a variety of head-trackers over the years. For at least a couple decades these animations have adapted to a large variety of OpenGL device drivers and a wide range of aspect-ratios. Each of these apps are tested across previous systems to be reverse-compatible back to Android system 1.6 (the first supporting large screens). The apps are also non-natively developed so they should run across all processor types. Other HMD's that do not support HDMI input should work fine with an inexpensive HDMI-to-video converter. If one does not have a device that can run the apps, there are links to YouTube videos that show the first 24 seconds of each captured at 1080p resolution with roll=0, yaw=0, pitch=0 so altogether it takes only about five minutes to get a good sample of them all with little effort. Following each description is timing info for musicians that may enjoy playing along while projecting or immersed-in the geometric animation of the music.